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Phillips Sonne can with his finger Hide his scarre, it is so little: +Alexander the Great, see glossary .John Lyly, in the dedicatory epistle to Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit , (1578), remarks: ‘Alexander hauing a Skar in his cheeke helde his finger vpon it that Apelles might not paint it, Appelles painted him with his finger cleauing to his face, why quod Alexander I layde my finger on my Skarre because I would not haue thee see it, (yea sayd Appelles) and I drew it bicause none els should perceiue it, for if thy finger had bene away, either thy Skarre would haue ben seene, or my arte mislyked’. Lodge reproduces the story in Euphues Shadow , (1592) and Margarite of America , (1596). (55) Little sinne a day to linger, Wise men wander in a tittle.

Trifles yet my Swaine haue turned, Though my Sunne he neuer showeth: Though I weepe, I am not mourned, (60) Though I want, no pittie groweth.

Yet for pittie, loue my Muses, Gentle silence be their couer: They must leaue their wonted vses, Since I leaue to be a Louer.

(65) They shall liue with thee enclosed, I will loath my pen and paper: Art shall neuer be supposed, Sloth shall quench the watching Taper.

Kisse them silence, kisse them kindly, (70) Though I leaue them, yet I loue them: Though my wit haue led them blindly, Yet a Swaine did once approue them.

I will trauaile soilesdirt of hard work, labour remoued, Night and morning neuer merrie: (75) Thou shalt harbour that I loued, I will loue that makes me wearie.

If perchaunce the Sheepheard strayeth, In thy walks and shades vnhaunted: Tell the teenecause of my grief, mischief my hart betrayeth, (80) How neglect my ioyes haue daunted.

FINIS. Thom. Lodge.

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